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wheat in competition with the world; that 

 35 cents tariff excludes any wheat from 

 coming in, but it does not raise the price of 

 wheat to the American farmer ; it is only a 

 margin created for the speculator to gamble 

 upon, and several times capitalists have 

 tried to corner it and put that margin in 

 their own coffers. If a corresponding 35 

 cents export bounty were also placed on the 

 wheat then the price would immediately be 

 raised up 35 cents per bushel to the Amer- 

 ican farmer. 



The same way with cotton. An import 

 duty of 10 cents per pound ; and also a cor- 

 responding export bounty, because we ex- 

 port cotton in competition with the low paid 

 labor of other countries, it is necessary to 

 put on a corresponding export bounty to 

 raise the price to the American grower. See 

 what Representative Aswell, Democrat for 

 Louisiana, said in the House of Representa- 

 tives, Washington, D. C. He said the South- 

 ern farmer would not consent longer to toil 

 12 months a year in the cotton fields unless 

 he could set a fair price for his product. 

 ^If he is not permitted to grow it at a pro- 

 fit," said Mr. Aswell, "the world problem 

 of the future will not be how to get cheap 

 cotton, but how to get cotton at any price." 

 Mr. Aswell said the Southern farmer for 50 

 years had received less than one-half the 

 actual cost of producing cotton ; by placing 

 10 cents per pound import duty and also a 



